… Hartman used her hair to hide her face and
walk past two federal TSA Precheck agents who were checking boarding
passes around 2 p.m. on Jan. 14 at O'Hare, prosecutors said Saturday.

After entering a security checkpoint, she then
went to a terminal and tried to board a plane to Connecticut, but as
she tried to "dart around" another passenger in line, she
was stopped by a flight agent and told to sit down, Assistant State's
Attorney Maria McCarthy told the court.

Hartman got onto a shuttle bus to the
International Terminal and slept there overnight, prosecutors said.

The next day, Hartman managed to get past British
Airways ticket agents and a Customs and Border Patrol officer, and
onto a plane, prosecutors said. She sat in an empty seat and flew to
London's Heathrow Airport, but when she showed her documents to a
Customs agent, she was identified as someone who entered England
without proper documentation, McCarthy said.

Facebook
announced on Monday that it’s prepared to award $100,000 grants for
research proposals focusing on improving online security, privacy and
safety.

The
new project, called “Secure
the Internet Grants,” is part of the initiative announced last
summer by Facebook
CSO Alex Stamos. Stamos revealed at the Black Hat conference
that the social media giant had prepared $1 million in funding to
encourage original defensive research.

Earlier this month, Rep. Bob Goodlatte
[R-VA-6] introduced H.R.4760 – Securing America’s Future Act of
2018, a sweeping bill that entails everything from Education and the
Workforce to Homeland Security to the military. Also, tucked
away in this 400-page behemoth of a bill are the details of a new
biometric National ID card that could soon be required for everyone.

Not surprisingly, there is almost no
media coverage on this legislation.

… Attached to this e-mail you will find the
full report I promised, analysing the grave political and business
risks that your firms face. I hope you will read everything I am
sending in full, and please do not distribute my work to your
underlings, as none of us want this e-mail to leak to the press.

The takeaway is that it is looking more likely
that one of you could end up like the giant structure at Burning Man
which the crowd torches, watching with rapt attention as it burns
down to ash.

A bipartisan group of Colorado
legislators proposed legislation that, if enacted, would
significantly change the requirements for how Colorado entities
protect, transfer, secure, and dispose of documents containing
“personal identifying information” (PII). The proposed
legislation also would expand the types of information covered by the
Colorado Breach Notification Law and result in additional
requirements for companies that have suffered a data breach, such as
a 45-day deadline to provide notice to affected individuals.

Read more on National
Law Review. This bill, if enacted, would provide much stronger
protections for consumers. Take a look at it, and if you’re in
Colorado, you might want to contact your legislator and express your
enthusiasm for it.

… Orange Is the New Black isn’t
just great television — it’s also an example of data-driven
creativity in action. With the recent explosion of shows produced by
Silicon Valley companies like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix comes a fear
that entertainment will increasingly be shaped by analysts crunching
numbers rather than creatives following their artistic vision. Five
years in, Netflix’s foray into original content demonstrates that
what’s happened is actually the opposite: Data-driven platforms are
giving high-quality, innovative entertainment a place to shine. Why?
Because they can connect content and audiences in ways that
broadcasters never could.

While it’s likely
AI will create new jobs, its more immediate (and lasting) potential
is in helping advance the science that underlies new industries.

If you were a brilliant artificial intelligence
(AI) expert just graduating from a doctoral program at a prestigious
school, would you pursue that startup you’ve been thinking about,
join a company that wants to build cutting-edge AI applications, or
use your expertise to help scientists in other fields conduct basic
research?

Admittedly, this is a bit of a silly question.
The opportunities presented by the first two options are outrageous,
and growing more outrageous by the day. With more than 2,000
startups absorbing much of the top-tier AI talent — estimated by
some to be just 10,000 individuals worldwide — the combination of
great scarcity and even greater demand for talent is driving salaries
through industry roofs. Some businesses offer seven-figure
compensation packages for elite AI talent.

Netflix Inc snagged 2 million more subscribers
than Wall Street expected in the final three months of 2017, tripling
profits at the online video service that is burning money on new
programming to dominate internet television around the world.

The results drove Netflix to a market
capitalization of more than $100 billion for the first time. Shares
jumped 9 percent to over $248 in after-hours trading on Monday after
rallying throughout the month and rising 53 percent last year.

We’re
about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global
warming

Studies have found that ships have a net cooling
effect on the planet, despite belching out nearly a billion tons of
carbon dioxide each year. That’s almost entirely because they also
emit sulfur, which can scatter sunlight in the atmosphere and form or
thicken clouds that reflect it away.

… And we’re about to take it away.

In 2016, the UN’s International Maritime
Organization announced
that by 2020, international shipping vessels will have to
significantly cut sulfur pollution.

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